Salto: Germany confirms itself as the master of the mixed team test for the third consecutive world championship

Salto: la Germania si conferma padrona della prova mista a squadre per il terzo mondiale consecutivo
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Salto: Germany confirms itself as the master of the mixed team test for the third consecutive world championship

In the late afternoon of today, the mixed team trial ended the special jump program at the World Championships in Seefeld.

As happened in Falun 2015 and Lahti 2017, the gold medal went to Germany. Katharina Althaus, Juliane Seyfarth, Markus Eisenbichler and Karl Geiger have won three out of eight rotations, always registering one of the best three scores. The only ones who could have worried about them in the gold medal race were the Austrians, who ended up in 22 square meters in honor square. At home Austria have made both Eva Pinkelnig and Philipp Aschenwald above expectations, Daniela Iraschko-Stolz defended herself while she left some points on the road Stefan Kraft. Instead, the fight for the lowest step of the podium, which in the end saw Norway prevail by 8 points over Slovenia, was more tightly held. The mvp norge was definitely Maren Lundby, while struggled a lot Andreas Stjernen. Japan finished in 5th place, among whose ranks have underperformed both Yuki Ito and Sara Takanashi, great disappointed in this world. The Japanese preceded Poland 6th, Russia 7th and Italy 8th. Sebastian Colloredo, Alex Insam, Elena Runggaldier and Lara Malsiner have nevertheless reached the goal set on the eve, that is to qualify for the second series.
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